Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Global affairs

The most expensive globe produced by former nightclub operator Peter Bellerby and his team at his factory in London costs a cool 80 000 euros. Weeks of work go into each one of his exquisitely and painstakingly detailed, handmade globes. The Louvre in Paris is likely Bellerby’s most famous client.

Waste not, want not

Each person in the European Union throws away an average of 179 kilograms of food a year, which comes to a rough total of 89 million tons. Now restaurants like the Spill (“trash” in English) in the Västra Hamnen district of Malmö, Sweden, are trialing a dedicated counteroffensive by serving, for instance, a delicious fish soup prepared with “rescued” vegetables from local markets would otherwise have thrown out.

Worthy winner

In 2018, the jury of Siena International Photo Award had to judge more images than ever before: 48 000, sent in by photographers from 156 countries. Christoph Kaula’s sprinting hamster was not a winner in the Animal category, but it did earn him a Remarkable Award.

Colorful camouflage

Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes usually features herself standing, sitting or reclining in the middle of her tapestry-like works. So well does she blend into her textile backgrounds that it sometimes takes a second glance to spot her.

Eloquent images

Diamonds, chrome, platinum, coal … South Africa is rich in minerals, but mining transforms the environment. Cape Town photographer Dillon Marsh points up the conflict between profit and nature in his photomontage series For What it’s Worth.